Asked about the rumours linking him with a summer move to Barcelona (read more here), São Paulo attacking midfielder and Brazilian international Hernanes (23) has confirmed in an interview with Catalan sports paper Sport that Barcelona is interested in him: "Yes, it's true that there exists an offer from Barcelona."
The player thinks he will be able to adapt to the football in Europe: "I feel ready to play for a club like Barcelona. I was very happy in São Paulo and I actually thought the foreign offers would come only later. But if the transfer would go through in the end, I'm prepared to make the step and deal with the situation. My style is quite similar to that of the European midfielders and coaches tend to like that. In modern football it's not enough to create chances, you also need to be able to score."
Hernanes thinks a deal can be closed in the next weeks: "Very few people have the privilege to receive an offer from Barcelona. It's a train you should try to catch cause it's possible it will only pass once in your career."
The paper claims that the deal with the player is complete but that São Paulo rejected a first offer of 10 million euro° (read more here). Hernanes would sign for four years. Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain will follow the player during the Brazil versus Argentinia game on Wednesday.
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10 million euro =
15,5 million us dollar
8 million british pound
what is it with this trains that pass only once ???
Yes, indeed. Moutinho mentioned some trains, today this guy. Who sales tickets for this train? I've never seen this guy playing. But honestly, if he plays attacking midfielder, in that case Barca should chase V.d. Vaart. I'm watching him for a while, and I think they should break the bank for him. And he's keen to join Barca, because he's FCB fan and he's half-Spaniard (and maybe most important, he used to play left winger because he's left footed). And one good news, I just red that meeting with Hleb fall down 'cause Arsenal is asking 20M! That's ridiculous.
seriously vdv is not better than hleb. have you seen hleb play? he is one of the best midfielders in england. van der vaert has to wait another year, so we can buy him voor 1.5m.
Hernanes is already 23? If he is that good, someone would already bought him.
To the comment above, Hleb is a great player, but we do not need another player like him, we already have Iniesta and Xavi who both do the same thing Hleb does. Hleb cannot score a goal to save his life and even his assist stats are not that great, plus he is old. Hernanes on the other hand is exactly what we need, he can shoot from out of the box, his vision and creativity are excellent, he is more versatile than both Hleb and VDV, he is two footed, he is a lot younger and he will be cheaper. I think Hernanes would be the best all round buy without a doubt.
I didn't know Hernanes was pregnant?? I'm willing to take a leap of faith of Hernanes any day over Hleb! My only question/concern is, if Barcelona do sign Hernanes will they still try to sign Hleb as well? I don't see why you would need both players? And even though Hleb could play as a winger, I'd rather pay a little extra for Silva instead.
They just handed him his part of the transfer fee. Didn't know where to put it...
LMAO!!! djoef I have to admit that was a good one!
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